Re: The external interface for the parser piece

[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel) 30 Nov 2000 13:07:48 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals.api.parser
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> writes:

JH> On a related note: a wrapper not completely unlike
JH> union sv_any_aligned_s {
JH> 	IV iv;
JH> 	NV iv;
JH> 	PV pv;
JH> 	void *vp;
JH> 	int (*dummy)(void) *fp;
JH> 	/* any others? */
JH> };

JH> should be used around SVs to ascertain that everything fits everywhere.

I was under the impression that p6 was going to do away with p5's
incestuous knowledge of hardware bits. And go with a more OO style of
dispatch.

<chaim>
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